The Future of Packed Tourist Towns
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
One thing the pandemic seems to have rendered obsolete, at least for now, is mass tourism. Beach towns lined with hotels that boast hundreds of rooms are struggling in a socially distanced age. Jeannette Neumann reports one tourist hotspot in Spain that once drew throngs of young people is trying to reinvent itself for a future of tightly controlled and intimate trips.
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| 0:43.6 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 163 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. Today's main story, |
| 0:52.5 | a coastal tourist town in Spain, once specialized in packing beaches and nightclubs, appealing to young people on a budget who piled themselves into cramped |
| 0:55.8 | hotel rooms. How does a place like that reinvent itself in the age of social distancing? |
| 1:04.3 | But first, here's what happened in virus news today. |
| 1:17.3 | Europe is facing a resurgence of coronavirus infections. |
| 1:23.9 | But the region's leaders don't have much appetite to return to the stringent restrictions on movement that helped control the pandemic in March and April. |
| 1:29.2 | On Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged European leaders to work together to |
| 1:34.8 | avoid reviving lockdowns, calling instead for unified action. |
| 1:40.8 | The uptick in cases in recent weeks has been blamed on social gatherings and travelers. |
| 1:47.0 | Targeted containment measures, like clamping down on nightclubs and mandating masks, have yet to show much of an effect. |
| 1:56.0 | Hong Kong will kick off a campaign to test its entire population for the novel coronavirus on |
| 2:03.0 | September 1st. It's the first such effort attempted outside of mainland China. Hong Kong's |
| 2:11.1 | chief executive, Carrie Lam, said the mass testing blitz will last as long as two weeks and will |
| 2:16.9 | be aided by China. |
| 2:19.2 | Unlike similar drives in the Chinese cities of Wuhan and Dalian, this will be voluntary. |
| 2:26.7 | Finally, economist Nureal Rubini said today that the global economy faces a risk of a slow recovery or even another slump unless a |
| 2:37.5 | vaccine is found. Speaking on Bloomberg television, Rubini predicted that the shape of the recovery, |
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